{"id":259592,"date":"2026-01-23T10:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259592\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:34:08","slug":"ireland-beat-hosts-spain-at-octagonal-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/259592\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland beat hosts Spain at Octagonal Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ireland kept their hopes of progression alive as they produced a strong singles showing to defeat host nation Spain at the Octagonal Matches.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland recorded a 3.5-1.5 victory at Costa Ballena to put their first point on the board after an opening round defeat to England.<\/p>\n<p>Things didn\u2019t start well for the new look boys in green when Adam Fahey and John William Burke were beaten 7&amp;5 by Marcel Fonseca and Samuel Love but the team regrouped in the afternoon singles.<\/p>\n<p>Former West of Ireland champion Keith Egan levelled affairs with a 1UP win over Yago Horno while Isaac Oliver impressed in beating Juan Miro 3&amp;2 in the second singles tie.<\/p>\n<p>South of Ireland champion Jonathan Keane\u2019s half point against Gonzalo Banos kept Ireland in front as East of Ireland champion David Howard ensured Ireland couldn\u2019t be caught with a 2UP win over Nicolas Vidal.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland will look to make it back to back wins against Portugal today.<\/p>\n<p>Scoring <a href=\"https:\/\/rfegolf.es\/Lists\/Resultados\/Attachments\/10649\/Enfrentamientos%20Completo%20J3.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland kept their hopes of progression alive as they produced a strong singles showing to defeat host nation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35197,61,60,127243,43],"class_list":["post-259592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-golf-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mens-octagonal-matches","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}